Catastrophic forgetting. Dying ReLU. Vanishing gradients. Mode collapse. Hallucination. No other technical field has vocabulary this dramatic. ML researchers we
Machine learning's technical vocabulary often sounds dramatic, using terms like "catastrophic forgetting" and "hallucination." This dramatic language reflects the real, visceral experiences of researchers witnessing model failures. The dark, almost gothic, aesthetic in this field's terminology is not an ironic choice but an accurate representation of the challenges faced. AI
IMPACT Explores the emotional and linguistic framing of AI research challenges.